EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Phrynops nasutus


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Austrochelidinae ()
genus...............Phrynops (Toad-headed Turtles)
species..............Phrynops nasutus (Common Toad-headed Turtle)
Original Description
Schweigger 1812 : 298
Holotype
MNHN 4140; photographed in Bour and Pauler 1987:21.
Type Locality
"Patria ignota" [= locality unknown]; designated as "Amérique méridionale" by Duméril and Bibron (1835:437), and "Guyanas et au nord-est de l'Amazonie" by Lescure and Fretey (1975:1318); restricted to "rivières Ouaqui et Inini, bassin du Maroni en amont de Maripasoula, Guyane francaise" by Bour and Pauler (1987:6).
Original name
Emys nasuta
Common Name
Common Toad-headed Turtle
Distribution
French Guiana and Surinam and possibly adjacent Brazil
Comments
Subgenus Batrachemys. See Comments under Phrynops dahli and P. raniceps. Reviewed by Lescure and Fretey (1975), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), and Bour and Pauler (1987).
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